computer slow

[Michael]

I am experiencing no slowness. It is like the days where you had a power
switch on the back of your computer... or it is like a hard reboot.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OpenCL in darktable mainly impacts rendering. it should have no effect on
> on system or ram consumption unless you are experiencing slowness during
> render cycles.
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You know.... I'm having trouble running darktable. It seems that after I
>> start it it runs a few minutes and then reboots the computer. Probably
>> because I do not have a GPU (I don't think). Then I saw this thread and
>> thought that I'd give that a try. So it seems I can not run chrome and
>> darktable at the same time.
>> ___
>> 'lspci' shows that my graphics card is :
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
>> RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
>> and 'lspci|grep gpu' returned an empty set
>> (if I did that correctly)
>> so I suppose the cheapest way to fix this is to get a gpu.... correct?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
>> Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In my experience, it’s almost always Firefox taking all of memory. (Or
>>> Chrome, or whatever web browser you’re using).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree with Mr B, run top or htop and see what’s, well, on top ;-)
>>>
>>>
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>>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Michael Butash
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:05 AM
>>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>>> *Subject:* Re: computer slow
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If I ever have that, it's usually because of something with a memory
>>> leak, or desktop graphic compositing is degrading over time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Before you reboot, see if you can ssh into it from another computer and
>>> check htop (or just top all you have), see if something is consuming all
>>> your memory or cpu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Desktop compositors are all shite from what I can tell (including
>>> windoze), they're all just a varying degree of broken when you push them,
>>> or just have a slow (or buggy) video card.  Depending on your desktop
>>> environment of choice, try turning down graphics options, or disabling the
>>> compositor all together to see if it helps stability.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm almost certain that in my bag of tricks I had instructions on
>>> 'resetting' my computer when it started acting weird but I can't find them.
>>> Riddle me this: I try to leave the computer on 24/7 (maybe I shouldn't do
>>> that) and twice so far I come up to it and it is non-responsive or really
>>> slow to respond. Anyone know how to fix this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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